Woman drives into Hanover Park pond

A woman was treated for mild hypothermia after driving her vehicle about 40 feet into a Hanover Park pond early Monday evening, according to fire department officials.

Rescue crews responded to Ranger Pond, located just off Barrington Road about two blocks north of Irving Park Road at 5:30 p.m. and fond the small passenger vehicle in the middle of the pond, said Hanover Park Fire District Batallion Chief Eric Fors.

The driver, who is in her 30s, was driving north on Barrington Road when her car left the roadway and ended up in the pond, according to Hanover Park Police Deputy Chief Tom Cortese.

The vehicle was about 40 to 50 feet from the shoreline, fire department officials said.

“Luckily the water wasn’t that high, so the car was not fully submerged,” Fors said.

When firefighters in water rescue suits reached the woman’s small passenger vehicle, she was alert and moving, officials said.

The woman was the only person inside the vehicle, and once helped back to shore, she was treated in an ambulance for mild hypothermia and taken to an area hospital, Fors said.